Library 2.0 what the readwrite web might mean for libraries

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Library 2.0 - what the read-write web might mean
for libraries? Dr Jim Mullaney
FuturePD drjim_at_futurepd.org Presentation
available for downloadwww.futurepd.org
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Welcome

• Continuous Partial Attention
• Web 2.0
• Media Literacy
• Data Mashups
• Social Networking

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Mullaneys Law of Inverse Usefulness

• Artist management - who represents
• www.whorepresents.com
• Remote computing IP Anywhere
• www.ipanywhere.com
• Go Lake Tahoe
• www.gotahoe.com
• Need a pen? . Try Pen Island
• www.penisland.net
• Powergen in Italy
• www.powergenitalia.com

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Horizon Report 2008

• Grassroots Video
• Collaboration Webs
• Mobile Broadband
• Data Mashups
• Collective Intelligence
• Social Operating Systems

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User created video
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Why should Web 2.0 be any different?

• Old web technologies were static and pretty
  much a broadcast model of delivery. Many
  instructors were happy to use it because it
  wasnt too far removed from a standard didactic
  approach.
• With Web 2.0, it becomes dynamic and about
  creating knowledge rather than consuming it.

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Web 2.0 characteristics

• Language Informal, Friendly, Humorous
• Design trendy, lots of space
• Technology web standards, interoperability,
  desktop-like responsiveness
• Culture openness, transparency, sharing, p2p

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Web 2.0?
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Social Trends

• Spread of Broadband
• Increasingly ubiquitous connections
• A generation of web natives
• Living on the web
• Social networking blogging instant messenger
• Create, not just consume
• Some hard lessons about data ownership
• Dont steal my data dont lock me in

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The Teacher as a One Man Band
Is this you?
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How students see us
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Teacher as Conductor
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Creating and Sharing

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Twitter
• Flickr Photo sharing
• YouTube Video sharing
• Feeds and podcasts
• Flickrvision
• Fan Fiction
• PLN

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Blogs
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Blogs

• A blog created every second
• Comment modes encourage interaction
• Team blogs enable engagement
• The Blogosphere is an incredible network with
  massive worldwide reach

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Common Blogging sites

• Edublogs - www.edublogs.org
• Safe, secure, easy to control
• Can be slow and sometimes flaky
• Blogger www.blogger.com
• Much faster and more flexible
• Not as safe

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Focus on User

• Contributions
• Blogging? Vs. Editorial Value?

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The Value of Blogs?
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twentyfivedays.wordpress.com
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Blogging and the rule of thirds

• 1/3 of the time writing
• 1/3 of the time reading
• 1/3 of the time commenting
• Without interactivity, blogging has limited
  success

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Bias of Web 2.0

• Bias Towards an Intelligent User
• Specific Information Goal
• Knowledge of Where to Start
• Specific Fulfillment Outcomes
• Bias Also Towards Current Users
• Expected Level of Sophistication
• Expected Level of Vocabulary
• Cultural Expectations

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Bias of Web 2.0
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Bias of Web 2.0

• Wikipedia Entries
• Michael Collins (Astronaut) 2 pages printed
• Leeroy Jenkins 4 pages printed
• Star Destroyer 23 pages printed
• Australian Government Departments 116 . No
  wait . 78 . No wait 24

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So Where is email?
Email is for old people
A student
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Media Literacy
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Engaging Students With Critical Thinking Media
Literacy 21st Century Skills

• With the advent and popularity of YouTube,
  Current TV, and similar venues, young (and old)
  people have become media producers.

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All you need is YouTube
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Engaging Students With Critical Thinking Media
Literacy 21st Century Skills

• Our students are growing up in a world saturated
  with media messagesyet, they (and their
  teachers) receive little or no training in the
  skills of analyzing or re-evaluating these
  messages, many of which make use of language,
  moving images, music, sound effects.
  Source R.Hobbs, Journal Adult Adolescent
  Literacy, February 2004

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Engaging Students With Critical Thinking Media
Literacy 21st Century Skills

• We are faced with the consequences of not
  teaching our children to decode the content. The
  persuasiveness of the Internet will lead to more
  and more students potentially being manipulated
  by the media

Alan NovemberauthorEmpowering Students With
Technology
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Six Key Areas of Media literacy education

• 1. Who made this text and why? (Agency)
• 2. What sort of text is this? (Category)
• 3. How was this text produced? (Technology)
• 4. How do I make sense of this text? (Language)
• 5. Who is the intended audience of this text?
  (Audience)
• 6. What does this text say about its subject?
  (Representation)

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Five core concepts

• All media are constructed
• Media are languages with their own set of rules
• Media convey values and points of view
• Different people experience the same media
  messages differently
• Media are concerned with power/profit

Source Center for Media
Literacy
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Media Power Profit
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The Millennials Learning

• Millennials preferred method of learning
  (Thornburgh)
• Parallel vs. sequential
• Cable news presents multiple streams of
  information
• Multiple sources of information
• Sound vs. text
• iPods
• Images first, text second
• Students get ½ their information from video
• Engagement, not entertainment
• Gaming

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The Millenials and Learning

• Millennials are huge consumers and users of
  digital media
• Spend 150 billion annually as consumers
• Spend on average 6 hours/day with digital media

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Mashups
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Mashups

• A mashup is a web application that uses content
  from more than one source to create a new service
• Content is typically sourced via an API or a RSS
  Feed
• Term comes from pop music
• Cool new breed of application on the web

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http//www.frappr.com/mashups
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Types of Mashups
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Chicago Crime
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Sellahouse
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How Mashups Work
Data
Data
Web Software or Service
Web Software or Service
Javascript Code
Web Page
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Google Maps
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Digital Natives
Digital Immigrants
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We have a Digital Immigrant Accent

• Printing out our e-mails
• E-mailing at all!
• No instant messaging
• Not Going to the Internet First
• Thinking Real Life happens only off-line
• Learning as Work
• Any others?

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Tools Will COME FAST

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Wikipedia
• Podcasting
• Polling Devices
• Speed Enhancers
• Cell Phones
• Games

and GO FAST
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Its important that we DONT WASTE TIME Learning
to Use New Tools
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the kids can do that!
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Dont try to keep up with the technology --
you cant

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Whenever I go to school I have to power
down a student
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The cookies on my daughters computer know
more about her interests than her teachers do.
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Social Networking
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Not just teens, of course

• 52 of MySpace users are 35
• Organizations on MySpace
• Rock for Darfur World Wildlife Fund NAACP
  National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Oxfam
  Human Rights Watch Save the Children Rape
  Abuse and Incest National Network
• 16,042 groups about philanthropy, 93,286 about
  religion, 25,335 groups about politics

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What do we need to teach?

• MySpace now has over 100 million users. That is
  larger than the populations of 213 countries.
  Perhaps we could deal with the social online
  networks thing if we thought of it for what it is
  MyNation.
• This is their digital nation. They are citizens,
  and they've never been taught digital civics.
• --David Warlick

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MySpace is whatever

• anyone wants it to be!
• Social producing / creative networking
• Alternate reality game diary teens bedroom
  school lunchroom
• Not knowing what we think till we know what
  everyone else thinks?

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What are they doing in there?

• Good stuff
• Socializing
• Learning social rules
• Decorating profiles
• Exploring identity
• Writing blogs
• Writing software code
• Risk assessment
• Discovering music
• Producing editing videos
• Discussing interests
• Social political activism
• Keeping in touch with friends long-term

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What are they doing in there?

• Neutral or bad stuff
• Seeking validation
• Competing in a popularity contest
• Venting
• Showing off
• Bullying
• Defaming
• Pulling pranks
• Getting even
• Impersonating

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What teens call

• hanging out
• researchers call "informal learning
• --------------
• Social norms, rules, narrative, personal/group
  history, media literacy
• Virtual private space
• Their own "third place"

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So What about learning?

• Rate of Change continues to increase
• Should we be doing more to harness the power of
  Web 2.0 tools?
• Need to understand the literacies required in the
  21st century
• Visual Literacies becoming more important
• Understanding of the media
• Critical Literacy of web based tools